The absolute worst news is the Rangers' scheduled Game 2, 3 and 4 starting pitchers combined for an ERA of 10.38 in four starts against Detroit this season.

Class-A Greenville Drive (Boston) made history as three pitchers combined to toss the club's first ever no-hitter.

On May 8, 2012 Greenville made history as three pitchers combined to toss the club's first ever no-hitter.

The game's starting pitchers - Colby Lewis(notes) for the Rangers and Jaime Garcia(notes) for the Cardinals - combined to allow a run, seven hits and three walks with 11 strikeouts over 13 2/3 innings.

Six pitchers combined to shut out Toronto, 4-0, today on three hits.

On August 24, 1914, he and four Washington Senators pitchers combined to set a record with seven hit batsmen in a game: Dauss hit three, and Washington pitchers hit four.

In the past five seasons, the four playoff years and the near miss this year, those three pitchers combined for a 234-119 record, a sparkling .662 winning percentage.

They picked up their 20th win of the season to sweep the Kansas State Wildcats with a 6-0 win as five pitchers combined for the four-hit shutout.

Their top three pitchers combined to win just one of their first nine games started.

On 30 occasions he has gone more than one inning to record a save; over the same period, all other pitchers combined have done so only a few more times more than Rivera alone.